da aposte e ganhe： At the risk of this sounding more like a ‘Rant by Rebecca’ than a quality article – or at the very least an article – I am going to risk raising the subject of ticket prices. Now I enjoy going to games as much as anyone, and have been to an array of stadiums in my time, ranging from the Bernabeau to Ewood Park, and I have enjoyed all the games. What I don’t enjoy however is the price you have to pay for said game.
da cassino： Now going to El Classico, I fully expect to pay premium price for a game, but if I was an away fan who had travelled half way across the country to a game and then found out the price I had paid for my ticket was double that of the team who had visited the previous week, my reaction would be roughly the same as when I get called Football Barbie– not best impressed.
Both United and Liverpool plan to bring this very issue up in the Premier League Shareholders meeting, and are, in my opinion, more than justified to do so. Whilst I will begrudgingly admit that there is some logic in charging away fans roughly the same price for a ticket that home fans have to pay, the so called ‘fairness’ of this rule is then totally negated when one away team pays under £20 for their tickets, and another pays nearly £50. It is not the fault of the supporter that they follow a so called more successful team, and the example above is that of Liverpool and Bolton at the Hawthorns.
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Clubs will tell you that in order to sell out the stadium for so called less attractive fixtures, especially should the game be on TV, they have to lower prices for fans, and I do think this idea has merit – Blackburn Rovers are offering a ‘treble ticket’ for £20 to get fans to fill the seats during games against Swansea, West Brom and Bolton, which given the state of Rovers at the minute is probably charging £19.99 too much, but in all seriousness no one can criticise offers like this, which benefit both the teams and the fans will a better atmosphere and energy around the stadium.
What people will criticise is the fact that those three sets of away fans will pay very little for their tickets yet when another side visits, they will pay much more – especially fans of say Chelsea or United. Just because a fan supports a club that come in the ‘Category A’ fixture section does not mean they have more money than a fan who supports a team that charge, by comparison, very little to watch.
From a supply and demand perspective, yes I can understand that top clubs will charge more for tickets and it does work both ways – a Swansea fan visiting Old Trafford will pay a similar price to the home supporters, and probably for the privilege of getting hammered – yet this is once a season. For ‘Category A’ supporters this is every away game, and as a fan, who can blame them for feeling that is unfair? And whilst I’m on a roll, have you seen the prices for a pie at games these days? You need a second job just to pay for the food, let alone the ticket!
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